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Stop The 16.7% Tax Increase
by Jason • • 26 Comments
Stop the sixteen point seven percent tax increase May 5th.
Higher taxes, and the return of redistribution aided advanced by Republicans in Lansing last night.
A May 5th special election will have poor voters deciding if they will be getting more cheese. The corporate abusers will get their pie, and the rest of us in the middle will get the bill. Pandering welfare gimmicks, corporate cronyism on steroids and a blanket party for the working class. Whats not to love?
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McMillin Farewell Remarks
by Jason • • 0 Comments
A great big THANK YOU to a rock solid friend of the constitution and conservatism!
Tom McMillin would have been an outstanding congressman.
Though we have some incredible voices joining the Michigan legislature this upcoming session, we will be losing one that is unique and irreplaceable. Tom McMillin has been a stalwart conservative voice in Lansing, has put his himself out in front to keep taxes low, fight the crony capitalism that seems to be the force majuere of our executive branch, and lead in the DOMA battle. Much of it knowing the battle was lost before it began.
We will miss him as the true representative of appropriate governance, and a fine example of the best this state has to offer.
Thank you Tom.
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Merry Christmas, Obama
by Corinthian Scales • • 10 Comments
Rep. Amash, thank you for your NO VOTE.
Kerry, really? …just UFB
Ps. a question for CD-1 voters, are you proud of yourselves yet?
H/t WRSA
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Thank you, Rep. McMillin
by Corinthian Scales • • 2 Comments
I hate to see Tom, leave.
no cookies for you: 107-1 vote for creating fundraising license plate for Girl Scouts. @TomMcMillin is only no vote. #mihouse.
— Kathy Gray (@michpoligal) December 10, 2014
To the rest of the MI-GOP’s RTL-MI endorsed, dunces touting their *pro-life street cred* in Lansing, take your seat on Nancy Pelosi’s abortionist sofa.
The biggest problem I see for Michigan, is that it is full of Michiganders. For the state where the Party of Lincoln was born – that is sad but, Truth.
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Hey, who wants to pay a higher gas tax?
by KG One • • 4 Comments
“It’s a first step. It’s a big step – don’t get me wrong. In a bipartisan way, the Michigan Senate was ready to say, `We want to fix roads and we’ll take tough votes to do it,”‘ said Senate Majority Leader Randy Richardville, a Monroe Republican.
“What I would say is the House action doesn’t get us there fast enough or far enough. It also creates major consequences to schools and local partners — that I don’t want to see negative things happen to them,” said Michigan Governor Rick Snyder.
And these guys are “republicans”?
So, who’s thirsty?
{Not to fear, more below the fold}
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Kowall & VerHeulen Pushing MORE Regulation On Michigan
by Jason • • 6 Comments
Big Box retailers have found foot soldiers willing to do bidding in HUGE rent seek.
Heads up!
Word on the street is that HB 4202 and HB 4203 are on the schedule for second reading today in the Michigan House of Representatives. That means it would be up for FINAL PASSAGE tomorrow. You can read below all the details about the bills. Bottom line, if they are enacted, you will be paying MORE taxes.
Please take a moment and contact your representative today. Let your opinion be known! These phone calls and emails do matter. They do affect how a representative votes.
Find your representative’s contact information here.
We will keep you posted of the progress (or lack therof) of these bills tomorrow.
House Bills 4202 (Kowall-R), and 4203 (VerHeulen-R), will impose new taxes on consumers in Michigan and will further burden online sellers, especially the mom and pop shops that operate out of a small store front office or the business owners home. They will be subjected by government to an abundance of new compliance requirements. It will stifle competition as many smaller competitors to the big guys (like Amazon) will likely be forced to downsize or worse yet, go out of business.
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The Next Time Someone Says Coal Is Bad
by Jason • • 2 Comments
Even the bureaucrats understand an electric system that is fubar.
Break out the blanket and paddles.
Folks speculate all the time whether ‘renewable energy’ is plausible enough to hit 10%, 15% etc. by a certain date. We have had our governments propose and mandate certain dates are met with minimums of electricity being provided by ambiguous, as-yet-to-be-discovered sources to the point where our eyes bleed.
However, in the mean time, it seems someone is taking notice of the insufficient resources that only ‘magically clean’ will provide. The Michigan Public Service Commission (MPSC) has somehow looked beyond the fools in Michigan’s political theater to address a looming reality. They are starting to actually ask the important questions.
And they are probably just starting to realize, our electric capacity is on borrowed time:
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Rick and Ron
by Corinthian Scales • • 3 Comments
Rightmi.com readers cannot say they were not informed: http://rightmi.com/old/www.rightmichigan.com/story/2013/10/18/10462/218.html
Yep. Just another page in Rick Snyder’s *culture* of corruption…
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Yeah, but can we trust him?
by KG One • • 4 Comments
Dovetailing on the good news from Trucker Randy yesterday, according to today’s Detroit News, Speaker Bolger has declared that BOTH HB-5959 (Rep. Foster) and HB-5804 (Rep. Singh) to be dead this year.
***Side note to Chad Livengood: Both bills were written to create a protected class in Michigan, NOT prohibit discrimination. I will be more than happy to cite numerous examples in Kentucky, New Mexico, Oregon ,Texas and New York (just for starters) to prove you otherwise. I shouldn’t have to remind you that you are a reporter, not an editorial page writer.***
{Still, I’ve got more after the fold}
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